Press Releases

Career CDC scientist says consultation with outside groups is “uncommon,” contradicting Walensky’s claim that consultation with AFT was routine WASHINGTON—Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Republicans released an interim report revealing Dr. Rochelle Walensky bypassed customary scientific processes at the U.S. Centers and Disease Control (CDC) to allow the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a political union and donor to the Biden campaign, ...

Biden pledged to have the federal workforce return to work, but OPM guidance tells a different story WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on Government Operations Ranking Member Jody Hice (R-Ga.) today continued their probe into the Biden Administration’s failure to return federal employees to the workplace. In a letter to Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Director Kiran Ahuja and General Services ...

WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), Representative Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Oversight Republicans today raised concerns over reports indicating the Biden Administration is working to revive the flawed Obama-era Iran deal and provide the regime even more leniency to the detriment of American interests. In a letter to U.S. Department of State Secretary Antony ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) opening statement at today’s Select Subcommittee’s hearing calls out the Biden Administration’s horrific track record during the COVID-19 pandemic and highlights how the American people have lost faith in public health officials due to their politicization of the coronavirus. Whip Scalise calls on Democrats on the Select ...

Slams Democrats for holding a hearing on socialized medicine while ignoring mounting crises WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s hearing on the Democrats’ socialized medicine scheme by blasting Democrats for looking for more ways to grow entitlement spending instead of conducting oversight to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending. He emphasized Republicans’ investigation into Medicaid ...

WASHINGTON – Today, Republican Leaders on the House Committees on Administration, Agriculture, Education and Labor, Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, Small Business, and the Appropriations Subcommittees on Agriculture and Financial Services and General Government, sent a letter to the Biden Administration raising concerns about its lack of constitutional and statutory authority to enact the Executive Order on Promoting Access to Voting, which ...

WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and House Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member John Katko (R-N.Y.) today blasted the Biden Administration for hiding information from the public about terrorists apprehended at the southern border. In a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Ranking Members Comer and Katko call for all documents and information about terrorist apprehensions at the border and the ...

Lawmakers continue oversight of FAA banning media drones from covering the border crisis WASHINGTON—Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Oversight Committee Republicans sent a letter to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson continuing their probe into the FAA’s decision to censor the ability of U.S. media outlets to accurately report on the humanitarian and national security crisis occurring ...

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) raised concerns about Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Commissioner Allison Clements' possible conflicts of interest after a review of public records revealed her failure to disclose her spouse’s financial stake in the renewable energy company Sol Systems, LLC. The law requires the Commissioner, who oversees ...

WASHINGTON – Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing requested by Representative Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) to examine the importance of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and what the federal government is doing to respond to a string of recent bomb threats to many of their campuses. Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Representative Byron Donalds, and Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) opened the ...